Category: Science

Maritime archaeologists investigating a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden have discovered a fancy shoe and two metal rings used as currency in the

Natufian hunter-gatherers may have shown their kids how to sculpt clay, sets of preserved fingerprints suggest.

The gold bear would have been worn on a headdress. (Image credit: Almaty City Administration) Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a unique gold bear figurine

More than a billion years of geological history is missing from the walls of the Grand Canyon, and now, scientists may know why. In the

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is nearing its final destination more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, where it will soon

From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie

This explainer is part of Quanta Magazine’s Origins of Life Week. Check back throughout the week for more stories about one of science’s biggest unknowns.

Scientists have proposed a new tabletop device to detect the subtle way Earth’s daily spin on its axis twists the space-time around it ‪—‬ an

Obesity is linked to a range of health problems ‪—‬ including heart disease, diabetes and early death ‪—‬ but it can be hard to know

A tiny brown mushroom found in Florida’s swamps is the first known fungus to contain both psilocybin, the chemical compound in psychedelic mushrooms; and amatoxin

Researchers in Florida unearthed a “dark magic mushroom” that boasts a combination of hallucinogenic and poisonous traits.

Physicist Stefano Martiniani uses a computer algorithm to design new materials that could help advance light-based computers.

The patient: A 45-year-old man in Italy The symptoms: The man went to the emergency room because he had a sharp pain in his lower-right

Engineers in China have built a new computer architecture they say can one day make up to a million artificial intelligence (AI) chips work as